Training Log Archive: Bomb

Mount alford loop before lunch at the brewery. bit sore to start with, but good to ease out the legs.

Mt Lindsay - Lions Rd loop with Dan and James. Massive day out, particularly with my total lack of training. I think I may have done road rides this long before, but not for at least 10 years.

The start was great - the Mt Lindsay highway climb was really nice - perfect gradient. Then the run down Summerland way was pretty fun - trending downhill for 40km. The shop in Grevillia had closed, but we found some water in a tank at the rural fire brigade shed (which may or may not have been responsible for my dodgy tummy later).
Once we turned onto the Lions rd the real fun began. Turned out 80ks of trying to keep up with Dan and James had pretty well cooked me, and I really struggled from there, and it was getting really hot. The climb was hard, but the last 15k run into Rathdowney totally emptied the tank. At one stage Dan was riding beside me to keep pushing me back into James's draft.

Pretty wrecked for the rest of the day.

Spent the week soil sampling near Cloncurry. forecast was for ~40C, so didn't take my running gear, and pool was overrun by screaming kids.

field checked a map for the sporting schools program.